Pavlyuk, meanwhile, sent out a universal (paper) throughout the Ukraine, with which he called all the people to become Cossacks: “anyone who wants to be a Cossack should not be forced to submit to the lords” it was said in it. Such an invitation was very much to the heart of many, and therefore crowds of huge flakes began to arrive at Chavlyuk every day. Pavlyuk invited the registered Cossacks to his place, inviting them to form one family with the Cossacks, a single and real Zaporozhye army, after which the hetmans were called, so that not Cherkasy, but Sich would be the main city of the Cossacks. Here there should have been: military armata, horsetails, etc., and all the Cossack elders should have lived; simple Cossacks could live in their farms and towns, always ready to report for service at the call of their superiors
If everything that Pavlyuk intended to do, he managed to carry out, then the entire military sergeant-major with the hetman at the head would cease to be under the thumb of the Poles, and therefore the registry, together with the Cossacks, strong in their unity, would achieve an increase in the rights of both the Cossacks and the entire common people.
Tomilenko hesitated, but apparently ‘leaned towards’ Pavlyuk and the rebels; The Poles, having heard about this, replaced him from the hetmanship and elected Kononovich, a man obedient to them in everything. The king was informed that a new hetman had been elected; The news, however, reached Pavlyuk earlier than the king: Pavlyuk sent a small detachment of desperate thugs. which is fast. having passed through the already worried Ukraine, he unexpectedly burst into Pereyaslavl in the dead of night, where Kononovich was located. In front of the stunned residents, the Cossacks seized Kononovich and other newly appointed elders, tied up the Poles' supporters and took them across the Dneir.
A council gathered here in Krylov: the murderers were tried and executed; This same Rada elected Pavlyuk as Hetman. The Polish crown tetman ordered Pavlyuk to appear before him for an explanation regarding the emergence of their disorder.
kov, vouching for his safety, but Pavlyuk did not appear, knowing full well that this was a deception: he only had to show up to be immediately captured and executed. Wanting to gain time, he asked the hetman to first send him from the king the signs of hetman's dignity: a banner, a mace and a horsetail; in other words, he asked that the king recognize him as hetman, and also that all the khlops who pestered him be recognized as Cossacks. The crown hetman refused.
In the meantime, it spread in a wide wave across the Ukraine: the people began to exterminate the lords, Jews, priests and zholners, and all the estates and churches went up in flames. Pavlyuk stood in Zaporozhye and communicated with the Crimean Khan, asking him to help with an army, but the Khan refused.